Did you ever meet someone born in the 1800’s? (page 4)

My Paternal grandparents were born in 1875 and 1877. Grandma, who became an IBSA died before I was born. However, I knew my grandfather well because he lived with my parents and me for about a year when I was between 6 and 7 yo. (1958) He was 83.

What a character he was! Unlike grandma, he was not a Watchtower believer. He was, like grandma, a child of original California settlers. He had a huge cattle ranch in parts of Lassen and Tehama county. He even built a summer resort that is still there called "Childs Meadows".

Grandpa was a lot like Ben Cartwright on the old show, Bonanza. Although he LOVED his whisky he was never a mean drunk. Sometimes when he had a snootful, he would invite little me up on his lap and tell me stories and say, "You are my only little granddaughter and I love you dearly. Then hand me a $20.00 bill! That is like giving a 6yo over $200.00 regularly. I had no idea about the value of the money. I just felt the love and affection he showed me.

Thanks for the memories, Grandpa.

waton

She died a little over 2 years short of that mark. Betty H.

My father too, could have lived in 3 centuries, 2 millenia nearly by that margin, with help from more determined doctors.

Diogenesister

I knew my great grandmothers and a smattering of great great aunts and uncles, too. All born in the 1800s.

I always thought that my great grandmother who grew up before & without a telephone and even radio & lived to see my school computer and our pong (lol) and Atari, lived through the worlds biggest changes. Now watching my own children’s childhood as the first to truly grow up online, I’m not so sure.

Waton At 91+, if you asked me if I belonged to that now gone generation or the newer crop, I would have to stay with the gone seniors. Does that make me an overlapper? my feelings do not render valid the overlapping overreach of the wt anointed generation .

Waton I’m in my 50s and even I feel that way. I deeply loved my grandparents (maybe 18 yrs your senior?) my great grandmothers, great and even great great aunties and uncles. I miss them so much and I yearn for the time their generation were all here…..it breaks my heart my own children will never know them and seem to have inherited a commercialised, greedy, violent world😔

punkofnice

Diosis - I’m in my 50s

Oh, you sweet young thing. I remember when the Romans were in Britannicus.

blondie

My grandfathers, was stunned to think I knew someone born in the late 1800's. But then were born in the early 1890's. Even still, the world changed drastically in 1914 from the previous days before (not using the 1914 doctrine here). Even on-jw historians say that 1914 was a turning point in world history. I was amazed to meet people who had lived when there were no planes, and bought a plan and flew it without a license, who had met Charles Lindbergh before he was famous.

LongHairGal

Certainly. Both my grandfathers and maybe some other elderly people I knew as well were born in the eighteen hundreds.

When I was in grade school and visiting relatives in the northeast we visited antique shops.

A very friendly elderly lady in one place was every bit of 99 years of age (she told us). She was as sharp as a tack. She also would certainly have had to have been born in the eighteen hundreds.

dropoffyourkeylee

Yes, quite a few. The oldest I specifically recall was 1889, my grandfather. Grandma was 1894. I remember another old lady who I took magazines to was born in 1892.

WordlyArtist

Yes, when I was born my great-great grandmother was still alive and so was my great-grandmother, I still have some gifts they gave me and photos of us, but they both passed by the time I was 6.

Did you ever meet someone born in the 1800’s?

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